+++ /dev/null
-Debug symbols
-
-Binaries in this package are unstripped since 20050322-4 at the
-upstream author's request. There is no separate -dbg package. Ion3
-is currently a development branch and not considered entirely stable.
-
-Docks and system trays
-
-Ion3 is compatible with the docking protocols used by WindowMaker and
-KDE. It can place docked applications windows either in a corner
-dock, or in a "system tray" in the status bar.
-
-For a corner dock, add:
-
- dopath("mod_dock")
-
-to cfg_ion.lua or cfg_modules.lua and edit cfg_dock.lua to your
-preferences. The dock window's visibility can be toggled using
-MOD1+D.
-
-For a system tray, edit cfg_statusbar.lua to include:
-
- mod_statusbar.create {
- ...
- systray=true,
- template="... %systray"
- }
-
-You can also configure specific windows to appear in the status bar:
-
- -- In cfg_ion.lua:
- defwinprop {
- class = "foo-window-class",
- statusbar = "foo"
- }
-
- -- In cfg_status_bar.lua:
- mod_statusbar.create {
- ...
- template="... %systray_foo"
- }
-
-GNOME unfortunately uses a different dock protocol. However, the
-docker program can adapt from this to the WindowMaker protocol. So you
-can include a GNOME system tray in your status bar by including docker
-in your X session and this in your Ion3 configuration:
-
- -- In cfg_ion.lua:
- defwinprop {
- class = "Docker",
- statusbar = "dock"
- }
-
- -- In cfg_statusbar.lua:
- mod_statusbar.create {
- ...
- template="... %systray_dock"
- }
-
-Adding configuration files to the defaults
-
-Ion3 extension packages may add and remove configuration files to
-those included by cfg_defaults.lua. The configuration files must be
-installed under /etc/X11/ion3. Run "install-ion3-cfg cfg_foo" in the
-postinst script to add the configuration file
-/etc/X11/ion3/cfg_foo.lua. Run "install-ion3-cfg --remove cfg_foo" in
-the prerm script to remove it.
Ion3
-----
+====
-Instructions for using Ion can be found in the manual page
-("man ion3"). There's documentation for the configuration files in the
-ion3-doc package.
+This is a release candidate for version 3.0 and should be quite
+stable. There have been substantial changes from earlier development
+snapshots.
-Note that this is a development snapshot. Some of the examples, and
-some of the documentation, is out of date. Most notably, the binding
-configuration syntax has changed.
+Instructions for using Ion3 can be found in the manual page ("man
+ion3"). Additional documentation is included in the ion3-doc package:
+"Configuring and extending Ion3 with Lua" and "Ion: Notes for the
+module and patch writer". There is an FAQ online at
+<http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html>.
-Ion2 included some nice scripts, which have been moved into a separate package
-for Ion3, called ion3-scripts.
+Some scripts extending Ion3 are available in the ion3-scripts package,
+though this is not currently maintained.
- -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:19:25 +0200
+There is an unofficial module adding Xinerama support in the
+mod-xinerama-for-ion package.
+
+Debug symbols
+-------------
+
+Binaries in this package are unstripped since 20050322-4 at the
+upstream author's request. There is no separate -dbg package.
+
+Docks and system trays
+----------------------
+
+Ion3 is compatible with the docking protocols used by WindowMaker and
+KDE. It can place docked applications windows either in a corner
+dock, or in a "system tray" in the status bar.
+
+For a corner dock, add:
+
+ dopath("mod_dock")
+
+to cfg_ion.lua or cfg_modules.lua and edit cfg_dock.lua to your
+preferences. The dock window's visibility can be toggled using
+MOD1+D.
+
+For a system tray, edit cfg_statusbar.lua to include:
+
+ mod_statusbar.create {
+ ...
+ systray=true,
+ template="... %systray"
+ }
+
+You can also configure specific windows to appear in the status bar:
+
+ -- In cfg_ion.lua:
+ defwinprop {
+ class = "foo-window-class",
+ statusbar = "foo"
+ }
+
+ -- In cfg_status_bar.lua:
+ mod_statusbar.create {
+ ...
+ template="... %systray_foo"
+ }
+
+GNOME unfortunately uses a different dock protocol. However, the
+docker program can adapt from this to the WindowMaker protocol. So you
+can include a GNOME system tray in your status bar by including docker
+in your X session and this in your Ion3 configuration:
+
+ -- In cfg_ion.lua:
+ defwinprop {
+ class = "Docker",
+ statusbar = "dock"
+ }
+
+ -- In cfg_statusbar.lua:
+ mod_statusbar.create {
+ ...
+ template="... %systray_dock"
+ }
+
+Adding configuration files to the defaults
+------------------------------------------
+
+Ion3 extension packages may add and remove configuration files to
+those included by cfg_defaults.lua. The configuration files must be
+installed under /etc/X11/ion3. Run "install-ion3-cfg cfg_foo" in the
+postinst script to add the configuration file
+/etc/X11/ion3/cfg_foo.lua. Run "install-ion3-cfg --remove cfg_foo" in
+the prerm script to remove it.
+
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:35:02 +0100